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Between Two Fires
2015
Overview
From a fire policy of prevention at all costs to today's restored
burning, Between Two Fires is America's history channeled
through the story of wildland fire management. Stephen J. Pyne
tells of a fire revolution that began in the 1960s as a reaction to
simple suppression and single-agency hegemony, and then matured
into more enlightened programs of fire management. It describes the
counterrevolution of the 1980s that stalled the movement, the
revival of reform after 1994, and the fire scene that has evolved
since then. Pyne is uniquely qualified to tell America's fire
story. The author of more than a score of books, he has told fire's
history in the United States, Australia, Canada, Europe, and the
Earth overall. In his earlier life, he spent fifteen seasons with
the North Rim Longshots at Grand Canyon National Park. In
Between Two Fires , Pyne recounts how, after the Great
Fires of 1910, a policy of fire suppression spread from America's
founding corps of foresters into a national policy that manifested
itself as a costly all-out war on fire. After fifty years of
attempted fire suppression, a revolution in thinking led to a more
pluralistic strategy for fire's restoration. The revolution
succeeded in displacing suppression as a sole strategy, but it has
failed to fully integrate fire and land management and has fallen
short of its goals. Today, the nation's backcountry and
increasingly its exurban fringe are threatened by larger and more
damaging burns, fire agencies are scrambling for funds,
firefighters continue to die, and the country seems unable to come
to grips with the fundamentals behind a rising tide of megafires.
Pyne has once again constructed a history of record that will shape
our next century of fire management. Between Two Fires is
a story of ideas, institutions, and fires. It's America's story
told through the nation's flames.
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Subject
ISBN
9780816531820, 081653182X, 9780816532148, 0816532141
